Arabic root

ص-ح-ف

Sad-Ha-Fa

4 words from this root family

About this root

Sad-Ha-Fa (ص-ح-ف) has 4 words in the Fahm dictionary: ṣuḥuf (scrolls / scriptures / pages), ṣaḥafiyy (journalist), ṣaḥāfa (journalism / press), ṣaḥafiyy (journalist / reporter).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 9 times in 9 verses, across 8 of the 114 suras. The first is in 20:133. The form صُحُفٌ (scrolls / scriptures / pages) accounts for 8 of them.

Themes: Quranic, Work, Job Titles, Technology Media, Media Politics

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
صُحُفٌ ṣuḥuf	scrolls / scriptures / pages	noun, B1	8×	Divine Names and Attributes
صَحَفيّ ṣaḥafiyy	journalist	noun, A2		Jobs & Careers
صَحَافَة ṣaḥāfa	journalism / press	noun, B2		Media & Journalism
صَحَفِيّ ṣaḥafiyy	journalist / reporter	noun, B2		Media & Journalism

“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.

In the Quran

وَقَالُوا۟ لَوْلَا يَأْتِينَا بِـَٔايَةٍ مِّن رَّبِّهِۦٓ ۚ أَوَلَمْ تَأْتِهِم بَيِّنَةُ مَا فِى ٱلصُّحُفِ ٱلْأُولَىٰ

And they say: If only he would bring us a miracle from his Lord! Hath there not come unto them the proof of what is in the former scriptures?

Quran 20:133

يُطَافُ عَلَيْهِم بِصِحَافٍ مِّن ذَهَبٍ وَأَكْوَابٍ ۖ وَفِيهَا مَا تَشْتَهِيهِ ٱلْأَنفُسُ وَتَلَذُّ ٱلْأَعْيُنُ ۖ وَأَنتُمْ فِيهَا خَـٰلِدُونَ

Therein are brought round for them trays of gold and goblets, and therein is all that souls desire and eyes find sweet. And ye are immortal therein.

Quran 43:71

أَمْ لَمْ يُنَبَّأْ بِمَا فِى صُحُفِ مُوسَىٰ

Or hath he not had news of what is in the books of Moses

Quran 53:36

Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).